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Any recommendations for making a free or low-cost wiki for personal projects? (NOT Fandom though) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by sighence@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone - wondering what advice you can offer for building something like this. Ideally I’d like to create a simple wiki for creative projects (mostly for content in the DnD campaigns my group has run over the years) and give others editing access, but would prefer something free or low-cost (no more than $10 monthly would be nice). How might one go about doing this? Just bite the bullet and pay for hosting? Maybe use a service like Azure or Linode?

I should add, I would rather avoid Fandom/wikia pages since that platform is an ad-riddled mess and I dislike using it. Most guidance I’ve found online mentions fandom so I’m hoping for different opinions.

I’m moderately tech savvy but have never done self-hosting (though I’d give it a shot if it’s simple enough to build and keep secure). Thanks!

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

Ideally I’d like to create a simple wiki for creative projects [...] and give others editing access [...] I’m moderately tech savvy

Codeberg allows to create wikis, even if this isn't their main feature.

The best thing: It is Git-based. So you have a regular Git repository for your wiki and you don't need to learn a new workflow. You can also edit pages in the browser. Permissions are a no-brainer of course. For editing pages, Markdown is used, so you don't even need to learn a new markup language.

Since Codeberg is an open source platform run by a non-profit association all and everything is free to use.

And if you ever want to migrate to somewhere else, just git pull your wiki and you're good to go.